CVE-2023-47466

Publication date 22 May 2025

Last updated 2 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

TagLib before 2.0 allows a segmentation violation and application crash during tag writing via a crafted WAV file in which an id3 chunk is the only valid chunk.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Only a denial of service when writing to a corrupted WAV file

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
taglib	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation

Notes

mdeslaur

Only a denial of service when writing to a corrupted WAV file, this has a low security impact

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
taglib	Upstream: dfa33be

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 2.9 · Low

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	2.9 · Low
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L